This time last week, I was enjoying our first meal as a married couple.

This week? This week I was trying to recover from the heart attack caused by the combination of computer problems and a bunch of nogoodniks who want me to think that no one is going to post their entries, only to swoop in at last minute en masse!

Unfortunately, not everyone made it to the starting gate, and we have some bye-outs, three veterans and a talented newbie. Goodbye to soldevenus, sonarvampress and team_jessie.

As for the rest of you - what looked like it was going to be a bye-fest ended up being a lot of people fighting really hard to stay in the mix! Which I love seeing. So, thank you for that!

A total of 4 people will be leaving us from Tribe 1 this week. However, spoiler - there are *2* sacrifices in those ranks. So it’s really only a matter of keeping out of the bottom 2.

It’s going to be someone though - so make sure to read, comment and vote for your favorites!

You never know when it’s going to be your vote that is going to make the difference in the poll, or when your comment will make the difference in someone’s day.

Actually, there is something that may well see the light of day this season - something that has been on my work desk for some time mulling over when to unleash it. It’s tentatively on the schedule - it may have something to do with that. Maybe it doesn’t… and maybe I’m just mentioning it to get your heads whirling trying to figure out what might be coming for you….

Right now though, the thing that is coming for you is this poll. Which closes Sunday, Feb 26th at 7pm EST

Good luck to everyone!

Note: ellison was incorrectly marked as having byed-out. I suspect it had something to do with the timing of my computer issues. My apologies. Her entry can be found at http://ellison.livejournal.com/888948.html and obviously, since she is not in the poll, she is immune from the vote this week, but check out the entry anyway!

Sorry if I was sort of on the last minute side. We were having computer issues here as well. I mean technically, we got in before the deadline with about ten minutes to spare, but... It would have been sooner had it not been for technical difficulties.